Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Alternative C compilers on x86_64 Linux? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 02:55:20 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <16-09-039@comp.compilers> References: <16-09-001@comp.compilers> <16-09-033@comp.compilers> <16-09-034@comp.compilers> <16-09-036@comp.compilers> Injection-Info: miucha.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="94886"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: C, practice Posted-Date: 29 Sep 2016 21:33:51 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com X-Received-Bytes: 1909 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3058552699 Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1778 In article <16-09-036@comp.compilers>, George Neuner wrote: >The i5 has 4 non-HT cores. Works for me. :-) >If you really have plenty of RAM, why not create a ramdisk? Or put >in an SSD for the tmp filesystem? I spent enough $$ for the laptop and it's fast enough in general. I don't want to buy an SSD or move my work directory off the hard disk in case of power failures or whatever. >>Since I originally posted, someone suggested that I just fix tcc on >>my own. I was able to do this with less than 2 hours work so now >>I'm back to being fat, dumb and happy. :-) > >As long as you don't expect the same level of optimization. TCC is >nice for quick development turn-around, but it doesn't produce the >fastest code. I am exactly interestsed in "quick development turn-around". :-) Thanks, Arnold -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com